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St Louis - Muskets Thread (USA civil unrest)

This has been going on enough to get it's own thread.

A day of anger over a fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in suburban St Louis turned to mayhem as people looted businesses, vandalized vehicles and confronted police in riot gear who tried to block access to parts of the city.

The police get out all their fancy toys the government sells them cheap.

And then start arresting journalists and banning all the TV trucks from the city. There are reports of the al jezeera news crew being fired upon as they were recording a piece to air.

Two reporters were arrested and teargas was fired at demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday, five nights after an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by an officer from the town’s predominantly white police force.

The most interesting part of this to me, aside from people in Gaza using twitter to advise americans how to cope with teargas, is the militarisation of the police.

According to a public information officer with the St. Louis County Police Department, the county dispatched two armored vehicles on Saturday in response to "unrest." Yet it was not until Sunday that some grieving community members answered perceived injustice with violence, looting about a dozen shops. As of Saturday, when the BearCat took to the streets of Ferguson (population 21,000), protesters were assembling peacefully.

I can't get a clear idea of the timeline, it's been going for a week but as people only notice when it goes bad I guess it's possible the police provoked the rioting by responding to a protest with a BearCat?

"I think we could all do with sitting back a bit and detaching ourselves from the situation to really think about how these issues reflect on our future and how we discuss them here and be a bit less aggressive or defensive because everyone has a complicated set of circumstances that has led the to place importance on particular issues and it doesn't meany any of them is less valid, we just need to look at the broader picture"

Well, we all know that the black condition spreads when bitten by a black. Also, they are highly aggressive and always trying to eat white money, so the only way to handle them is through superior numbers.

Tanks: theBlind[URBAD] (in my heart there will always be a place for [FAIL])
Planetside2: [UBAD]theAngelic

Well, we all know that the black condition spreads when bitten by a black. Also, they are highly aggressive and always trying to eat white money, so the only way to handle them is through superior numbers.

Is that a paintball gun? Im assuming its balls filled with tear gas or peppersomething. Certainly a job well suited for Raz0r!!!!

e: on another note i laughed my ass of when i first saw the news. First thing the protesters did when it became a riot was loot the liquor store. Seeing a black man smilling widely when he runs of with 4 bottles of vodka was priceless.

~ I'm not so upset about the militarization of the police, considering that every whacko and his cousin has a gun it seems reasonable enough to me for law enforcement to be wearing body armor and rolling in 'plated vehicles.

~ I'm not so upset about the militarization of the police, considering that every whacko and his cousin has a gun it seems reasonable enough to me for law enforcement to be wearing body armor and rolling in 'plated vehicles.